{"id":212223,"date":"2023-02-25T18:03:26","date_gmt":"2023-02-25T10:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=212223"},"modified":"2023-02-25T18:03:27","modified_gmt":"2023-02-25T10:03:27","slug":"malaysia-approves-380000-foreign-workers-under-relaxation-of-hiring-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=212223","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia approves 380,000 foreign workers under relaxation of hiring plan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>PADANG BESAR (Malaysia), Feb 25\u00a0(NNN-Bernama) &#8212; Malaysia&#8217;s Home Ministry has approved the applications of 380,000 foreign workers under a\u00a0plan to facilitate the hiring of workers to meet the country\u2019s economic needs in the post-pandemic period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister Saifuddin&nbsp;Nasution Ismail said the ministry implemented the plan based on Bank Negara\u2019s (central bank) recommendation to ease the conditions for hiring foreign workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSo far&nbsp;Home Ministry has approved 380,000 applications from foreign workers who overstayed and did not have valid documents, so that they could immediately seek employment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis relaxation is given in several critical sectors like plantation, agriculture, manufacturing and services,\u201d he told reporters here today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under the first phase of the plan, industry players needed to hire up to 518,000 foreign workers, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saifuddin&nbsp;Nasution said this was important for the country\u2019s economy, which is expected to grow at 4.5 per cent as stated in Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim\u2019s Budget 2023 speech on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; NNN-BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PADANG BESAR (Malaysia), Feb 25\u00a0(NNN-Bernama) &#8212; Malaysia&#8217;s Home Ministry has approved the applications of 380,000 foreign workers under a\u00a0plan to facilitate the hiring of workers to meet the country\u2019s economic needs in the post-pandemic period. Minister Saifuddin&nbsp;Nasution Ismail said the ministry implemented the plan based on Bank Negara\u2019s (central bank) recommendation to ease the conditions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":53944,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,288,300,286,318],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212223"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=212223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212249,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212223\/revisions\/212249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/53944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=212223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=212223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=212223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}